American School of Prehistoric Research Junior Fellowships
The ASPR is pleased to support postdoctoral research fellowships at Harvard University for recent PhDs who are pursuing independent research on Old World prehistory. Currently, there will be two ASPR Junior Fellows in each cohort, each for an appointment of two years with the
possibility for extension to a maximum of three years. ASPR Junior Fellows will be affiliated with one or more academic departments at Harvard and will be assigned a faculty mentor, ordinarily but not necessarily in the departments of Anthropology or Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. ASPR Junior Fellows are expected to be young scholars with a proven record of high quality, original, independent research.
Current Junior Fellows
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Supporting Field School Access
Harvard Summer Program in Kenya
Increasing access to field schools that focus on old world prehistory is one of the ASPR’s objectives. In the summers of 2024 and 2025, we helped to organize and fund a 6-week summer program in Kenya where students learned about archaeology, human origins, and paleontology, among other topics. More information about the field program, as well as the steps for application, is available here.
Partnership with the Archaeological Institute of America
In 2025, the ASPR supported field school access through a partnership with the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The AIA offers scholarships to students planning to participate in archaeological field work for the first time, and through our partnership, we have provided funding for 5 students to participate in field school experiences focused on old world prehistory.